Spring 2017 release announced! The official preview revealed for the first time! The first special news with the latest key visuals unveiled!

At “Anime Expo 2016”, being held in Los Angeles, USA, Haruka Tomatsu, VA for Asuna, and Ayashi Takagaki, VA for Lisbeth, showed up as secret guests for the event “SAO Festival” on July 2nd Pacific Standard Time! The event stage was filled with 3,000 SAO fans and they welcomed the news of the international spring release with a huge cheer!

Tomatsu said on stage “I’m also so excited as one of the fans to hear about the movie! I’m going to do our best, cooperating with the cast and staff to make it entertaining for you all.” Takagaki said, “It’s going to be a complete new story and my heart pounded hard just at the glance of the video! This series is loved by everyone in the world. I’m sure the movie is going to heat you all up! Please look forward to the coming news and its release!” Additionally, they unveiled the first special preview using the official video of the movie, and the latest key visuals, illustrated by Shingo Adachi, the character designer.

Advance tickets for the movie (throughout Japan) will be on sale on Saturday, July 16th!

【The first limited sale of the advance tickets with a special free gift】
Price: 1,500 yen (tax included)
※1,800 yen for a ticket sold on the day
※The advance tickets with special gifts are limited. The limited sale with a free gift will end when all have been sold and the rest will be advance tickets only.
※The second sale is also scheduled.
※The theater information will be announced on the official homepage later!
Special Free Gift: B2 sized poster of the second key visual

Yuki Kajiura SAO concert in Hollywood!!

“Yuki Kajiura LIVE ～featuring SWORD ART ONLINE～”, held at Tokyo International Forum on the March 21st this year, will be reproduced on January 14th, 2017 at Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland! This is going to be the very first solo concert in North America for Yuki Kajiura.
It is going to be the first opportunity for the SAO fans in North America to see her world view, so please look forward to it!

Name of the event：Yuki Kajiura Live in Hollywood
Date: January 14, 2017
Venue: Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland
Ticket information: Announcement coming soon
For information：http://www.sao-movie.net/us/yukikajiura

A Comment from Yuki Kajiura!

Yuki Kajiura LIVE～featuring SWORD ART ONLINE～
It’s filled with all the songs from Sword Art Online.
I’m honored to have this concert again in Los Angeles this time, and I’m looking forward to it.
I hope the SAO fans in the United States also enjoy the sound of the SAO world to the fullest.
The SAO songs played in the open atmosphere in Los Angeles may show different colors to us. I anticipate this concert with the staff members!

Story

In 2022, a genius programmer, Akihiko Kayaba, developed the world’s first full-dive device called “Nerve Gear”. This new innovative machine brought unlimited potentials to the VR world. Then, four years passed by… As if to challenge its succeeding VR machine “Amusphere”, a completely new, new generation wearable multi-device, “Augma”, is released. It is the cutting edge machine that removed the full-dive device and instead boasts the ability to enhance AR (Augmented Reality) to the maximum. Because of the safety and convenience of “Augma” that allows the wearers to use it while being awake, it soon spread to more users. Its killer content is called “Ordinal Scale (OS)”, which is an ARMMO RPG driven exclusively by this “Augma”.
Asuna and others have been playing the game, and Kirito also tries to join in…

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